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Entries from September 2007

Gay Marriage, Lexington High, and Mass Resistance

September 28th, 2007 · No Comments

“Gay.” “Lesbian.” “Same-sex marriage.” Words you’re not supposed to hear uttered in the Lexington Public Schools that is according to Brian Camenker and his pack at Mass Resistance. But Mass Resistance is not having its way.
PFLAG gave the first of over 240 copies of Courting Equality slated to go to Massachusetts Gay Straight Alliances (GSAs)to […]

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Tags: lgbt family · Massachusetts · gay marriage · Gay Straight Alliances · Lexington · MA · PFLAG

Being Mayor Sanders Daughter

September 28th, 2007 · No Comments

San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders has come over from the dark side. His daughter made it happen. She came out.
But I wonder what must it have been like to be the daughter of Sanders when he was saying that he would not support same-sex marriage? How did she feel knowing that the city council supported her civil […]

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Tags: california · gay marriage

Arkansas: Still A Civil Rights Frontier

September 27th, 2007 · 1 Comment

Pat Gozemba and Karen Kahn have been invited to share the message of marriage equality at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville. Their talk is entitled “Marriage Equality: A 21st Century Civil Rights Struggle.” At the flagship campus of the university, they are being sponsored by the School of Law and the J. William Fulbright College of […]

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Tags: civil rights · Arkansas

PFLAG Donates Courting Equality to GSAs

September 25th, 2007 · No Comments

At PFLAG’s Annual Meeting, President Stan Griffith presented a copy of Courting Equality to Carla Yengo-Kahn for the Lexington High School Gay Straight Alliance. Author Pat Gozemba (left) noted that the donation of a copy of the book would be made to each of the 241 GSAs in Massachusetts thanks to a generous donation to […]

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Tags: civil rights · Massachusetts · Gay Straight Alliances

Gay Straight Alliances to Receive Courting Equality

September 20th, 2007 · No Comments

Greater Boston PFLAG (Parents, Friends, and Families of Lesbians and Gays), at their annual meeting on Sept. 24th at 7 pm, will donate Courting Equality: A Documentary History of America’s First legal Same-Sex Marriages to all Gay Straight Alliances (GSAs) in Massachusetts public schools and offer it to all public high school libraries. Lexington High […]

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Straight Allies in Asheville

September 8th, 2007 · No Comments

When progressive activists Frank and Margaret Adams learned that we were going to present on marriage equality at Highlander’s 75th Anniversary outside of Knoxville, TN, they insisted that we come to their home town of Asheville, NC and do a reading and presentation. Frank, a former director of Highlander, and Margaret, both in their 70’s know what struggles for […]

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Tags: gay marriage · Religious Allies